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2009/07/10 15:45:35
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Like most addicts we all come crawling back, but I was wondering just how many times dakka has thrown in the towel and said 'never again'. The other uses for money in the 16-19 age range seems to be one of the main culprits.
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2009/07/10 15:55:26
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Nasty Nob
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Well, I started wargaming when I was past the "raging hormones" age rage you mentioned and when I was already in a relationship so if i've ever taken time off it's been because I just needed a break.
Now I've 'considered' quitting gaming completely probably2-3 times, but that is generally right before a new edition of something comes out and then I get hooked right back in.
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"Just pull it out and play with it" -Big Nasty B @ Life After the Cover Save
40k: Orks
Fantasy: Empire, Beastmen, Warriors of Chaos, and Ogre Kingdoms |
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2009/07/10 16:16:25
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Executing Exarch
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When I was in the army it was kind of hard to dedicate the time to the hobby especially when I was in Bosnia, but after that was all done I was right back into it.
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Rick Priestley said it best:
Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! The modern studio isn’t a studio in the same way; it isn’t a collection of artists and creatives sharing ideas and driving each other on. It’s become the promotions department of a toy company – things move on!
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2009/07/10 16:32:45
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Crazed Spirit of the Defiler
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I've cleared my desk, boxed all my minis/gear and put them in storage several times. But sure enough they always come back out and get set up again.
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2009/07/10 17:49:37
Subject: Re:How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Raging Ravener
Daemon infested warp gate
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I just startes sooo.
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TheCyben: Seriously though, I'm not advocating GW to model any Boosh characters. If they have to pick one, it would have to be Tony Harrisson... but that would be an outrage.
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2009/07/10 17:57:07
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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I've wandered off the path now and again, but never intentionally.
It's always been life getting in the way, be it unfavourable working hours, a lack of cash, or others.
But yes, I've always come creeping back eventually. Hell, I've even embarked on a new 40k army this week!
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2009/07/10 17:57:23
Subject: Re:How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw
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Fifth edition Warhammer 40,000
Codex: Chaos Space Marines
So, yeah, twice for a few weeks. The AoBR Orks dragged me back.
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! |
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2009/07/10 18:48:49
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Nasty Nob on a Boar
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I just move from game system to game system.
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No madam, 40,000 is the year that this game is set in. Not how much it costs. Though you may have a point. - GW Fulchester
The Gatling Guns have flamethrowers on them because this is 40k - DOW III
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2009/07/10 19:16:39
Subject: Re:How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Fixture of Dakka
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I'll take a break everyone once in a while. Sometimes its because of WoW. Sometimes its because I'm just not digging the atmosphere at the store. Right now its mostly because of summer classes and a lack of an army.
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2009/07/10 21:10:25
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Fanatic with Madcap Mushrooms
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Once in a while, I'll unintentionally pay no attention to my models and leave them alone. But I always come around.
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Some people play to win, some people play for fun. Me? I play to kill toy soldiers.
DR:90S++GMB++IPwh40k206#+D++A++/hWD350R+++T(S)DM+
WHFB, AoS, 40k, WM/H, Starship Troopers Miniatures, FoW
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2009/07/10 21:47:25
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Lead-Footed Trukkboy Driver
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legoburner wrote:The other uses for money in the 16-19 age range seems to be one of the main culprits.
QFT
That, and when they change all the rules, really cheesed me off the first time (1st ed - 2ed) I'm used to that now though.
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2009/07/10 22:39:53
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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[DCM]
Dankhold Troggoth
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I was gone for 7 years!! But I came back... and it feels good to be back
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2009/07/10 22:43:43
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Dominating Dominatrix
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I don't get to paint as much as I would like to, but I never quit.
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2009/07/11 01:46:19
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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[DCM]
Coastal Bliss in the Shadow of Sizewell
Suffolk, where the Aliens roam.
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Once, I think it was around 98, not long after I moved in with my then future wife. We'd been mostly playing PnP RPG's and CCG's and me and a mate said screw it and quit wargamming thinking we where just good with the RPGs/CCGs.
Sold everything I had par a few bits and pieces. Lasted about 10months, before I saw an add where a kid was selling everything he had including a a gaming board for around £120. It was two or three armies worth, so after chatting with my mate again, we realized we'd been missing it and came back in.
My big regret is the stuff I sold when I dropped out, things like Slaves to Darkness, Lost and the Damned, Warhammer Armies (the one with Cathay, Nippon in) all the old Ork books. All my Space marine (Epic stuff) and of course my 17 fully painted Blood Bowl teams that I was doing as some kind of mad quest to complete out the whole NAF roster.
Painful.
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"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
Two White Horses (Ipswich Town and Denver Broncos Supporter)
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2009/07/11 01:54:29
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Snord
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On my seventh birthday i got the 2ed starter box.
That was 16 years ago, i never looked back and probably wont, ever.
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2009/07/11 03:40:26
Subject: Re:How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Space Marine Scout with Sniper Rifle
Chicago, Illinois
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Got started when I stumbled into a GW in Bristol back in 1996 or 1997, gave it up just as the 3rd Ed was coming out. Got back into it a few months ago after looking for an easy read on a business trip and coming across the first two Horus Heresy novels in a bookstore (False Gods had just come out). After reading those and then every single 40K Black Library book I could find I broke down and admitted I was going to have to get back into it. I blame Saul Tarvitz
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2009/07/11 05:05:38
Subject: Re:How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Armored Iron Breaker
Lookin' fur daemons ta' fight!
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Since im still trying to get my first nid pieces, im kinda in a rut right now. But im getting them soon, so hopefuly that ends tomarrow
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Teh Emprah Protects
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2009/07/11 08:17:09
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Painlord Titan Princeps of Slaanesh
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I've been playing for almost 10 years now, and I've never quit. I even took my army across the Pacific to Japan with me to game over there!
I've only recently really dug down and started getting my vast collection of chaos space marines painted, though.
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40k Armies I play:
Glory for Slaanesh!
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2009/07/11 13:19:32
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Ferocious Blood Claw
Australia
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I have never considered giving it up...although i have changed from lord of the rings to 40k.
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Trust mathematics not Murphy's law.
2500 points
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2009/07/11 13:34:05
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Bonkers Buggy Driver with Rockets
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ive stoped playing for a while do to kids and bordem now though i switch from hordes/warmachine,and 40k,and infinity,and the list gose on
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looted moonz 6000 pts and still growing and building |
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2009/07/11 13:42:42
Subject: Re:How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I quit all nerdery when I went to University, but not as an intentional thing - just the friends I made at Uni were not that kind of crowd and I did not feel the need to find people to play with. It had already been over a year since I had played any GW - it had been M:tG and RPGs for a while before then anyway. I started playing NWN when I was in Japan a while back as it was something to do in the evenings apart from watch gak Japanese TV and my nerd levels have gradually increased again since then. When I quit my NWN persistent world I started playing WAR and that got me thinking about GW again.
Luckily, I never "quit", so all of my old stuff going as far back as 1989 was still in my parents' loft, so I still have StD, L&D, 'Ere We Go etc etc
I think it is a real shame that games like Space Hulk, Dark Future, Blood Bowl etc all have support varying from poor to nothing these days, but most of all, I cannot BELIEVE that Epic is no longer a mainstream game anymore.
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2009/07/11 14:41:27
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Dangerous Leadbelcher
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i was about to quit but torneys always bring me back
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"evil prospers when good men do nothing"
Nelson Mandela
skaven
knights
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2009/07/11 15:24:14
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Sneaky Sniper Drone
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I'm always drifting away, eithre cos I get burnt out or cos I find other things ot occupy my time and money, but I always end up back
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Proud Member of the Dakka Dakka Casual Gamer Mafia - 'Our way is the only way!
Boris Johnson wrote:Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and
increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
95% of teens would go into a panic attack if the jonas brothers were about to jump off the empire state building copy and paste this if you are the 5% who would pull up a lawn chair grab some popcorn and yell JUMP BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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2009/07/11 23:50:14
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
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Eh, Once or Twice becuase I collected them, put 'em together and did sweet ef all. I didn't even KNOW you could have games with them, I was 10.
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Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
"Good game guys, now lets hit the showers" |
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2009/07/15 01:33:22
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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[DCM]
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Never in the last 20 years
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2009/07/19 12:00:17
Subject: Re:How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Yellin' Yoof
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I stopped for the second time when I came to Uni. A general mix of spending all my money on alcohol and being distracted by all the new activities that were possible. I couldn't keep away forever though and I'm now back, immersed in the wonderful world of modelling and gaming.
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2009/07/19 23:02:37
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Sure Space Wolves Land Raider Pilot
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Never!, well kind of never.
Well I did stop playing and painting for a few years when I discovered Beer and Women, but I held onto most of my models, still annoyed I lost all the books and stuff I had though.
Now I'm married with kids, so not so much beer and women anymore so alot more paintings getting done.
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2009/07/20 03:08:19
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Deadly Tomb Guard
In ur gaem, killin ur doodz.
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Never threw in the towel on them.
I did have to go on a forced hiatus during my College years.
I'm kinda mulling the idea around in my head right now.. Being a father, and a full time job haver that doesn't really pay the bills.
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8th ed Khemri in 8-4-0 Malleus wrote:The swordsmen will tar pit nearly anything nearly forever (definitely long enough for the old tank in the flank prank).
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2009/07/20 07:58:50
Subject: Re:How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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30 years old and 20 years wargaming.
Never gave it up, never will.
If I'm down on time, I'll just make more.
Sleep is optional, pushing lead isn't.
It was almost an issue with an ex, I still don't miss her.
My gamer-mainline got more taps in it than a maple forest in upstate New York.
Don't fiend. Indulge.
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2009/07/20 08:18:16
Subject: How many times have you completely given up wargaming?
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Tough-as-Nails Ork Boy
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I've just returned after a break of about 17 to 18 years, can't remember there being a point where I decided to give up though just kind of drifted off..
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